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Monday, 30 April 2012

At Calgary Expo this year I was thrilled to meet some of the talent behind HEROES OF THE NORTH. A Canadian production about Canadian superheroes. I've been following their web-isodes for awhile now and they do a great job.
Great to see you guys out west! Thanks for coming and for all you readers out there, check out the Heroes web link above.

Saturday, 28 April 2012

GONG SHOW!!! but what do you expect when you have so many A-list guests coming to one spot. The staff at the Expo were great!
Today was about Walter and Astrid of FRINGE!
I know this sounds cliche, but .... the nicest people you would want to meet! Very pleasant to talk to and grounded and funny.

The panel session they had was great, good questions, intelligent answers, Jasika doesn't like the cow on set, John's ability to "fake" being high is questionable.

The statue featuring superheroes Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman was
displayed during a media preview for the Superheroes: Fashion and
Fantasy exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The
symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the
superhero are explored in this compelling exhibition. Featuring movie
costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it
reveals how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion
and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects are
organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie
costumes and superpowers are catalysts for the discussion of key
concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion.

Friday, 20 April 2012

it's only a week away!
I'm very excited to meet, the one and only.....Adam West!! AND get my pic with the famous 60's Batmobile.
I've mentioned this before...HERE
But this year's guest line up it off the charts! so many great people coming. It's going to be an exhausting weekend.

Made in 1988, Ron Mann’s classic Comic Book Confidential was
way ahead of its time. Mann, a master of documenting alternative
cultures, set his sights on the history of the comic book industry—an
industry that once was reviled for its violent content or considered too
mainstream. Mann sits down with more than 20 of the most significant
comic artists and writers in North America (including heavyweights such
as Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Harvey Kurtzman and Gary Panter) and examines
how our current cultural fabric has quietly been influenced by this
warts-and-all alternative art form. Robin Smith, Hot Docs

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Dark Shadows star and fellow Canadian Jonathan Frid has passed away at the age of 87.

“The 87-year-old actor reportedly died of natural causes at Juravinski
Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario,” says the website. “Frid also starred in
1973 television movie The Devil’s Daughter and 1974 film horror Seizure.
He filmed a cameo appearance – his final acting credit – in Tim
Burton’s forthcoming film remake of Dark Shadows, which stars Johnny
Depp as Barnabas.”

Monday, 16 April 2012

Some Fanboys got together and wrote a musical. Campy and creative, the people behind StarKid theatre company, which has its roots firmly embedded in the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theater, and Dance.

The publisher's digital line ramps up its original content beginning today with the debut of Smallville: Season 11, a weekly continuation every Friday of the long-running TV series based on the Superman mythos penned by show writer Bryan Q. Miller.

Next month sees the launch of Ame-Comi Girls, a weekly series available on Mondays based on DC's product line featuring Japanese manga-style versions of Wonder Woman and other superheroines written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray.

And on Thursdays beginning in June, a new digital Batman series will showcase stories of the Dark Knight outside of regular DC Comics continuity and feature artists and writers such as Ben Templesmith, Steve Niles, B. Clay Moore, Nicola Scott and Joshua Hale Fialkov. One all-star issue teams writer — and Lost co-creator —Damon Lindelof with artist Jeff Lemire (Animal Man, Sweet Tooth).

Thursday, 12 April 2012

LEGENDS OF THE KNIGHT is a feature-length documentary film about this truth. And we are capturing it through the lens of one of the most popular myths of our time – The Batman.
But this movie isn’t about Batman. It’s about us. It is about who we are as people & who we desire to become. The most important Batman tales are not in comic books, TV shows, or Hollywood movies. They are within the people for whom the Dark Knight has become a symbol.

Sunday, 1 April 2012

Like I didn't know this already, but it's nice to have some validation, right?

Batman ... knocking out the competition Photograph: Jerry Robinson/AP

Batman's utility belt doesn't really compare to the superpowers
of Spider-Man and Superman, but Gotham City's caped crusader has
nonetheless been named the greatest comic hero of all time.The readers of Comic Heroes magazine
voted for Batman, the alias of billionaire Bruce Wayne, as their top
comic hero, ahead of the second-placed Spider-Man and the third-placed
Superman. The magazine is not the first to rank heroes from the world of
comics: in 2008 Empire magazine put Superman top, followed by Batman and John Constantine, the exorcist created by Alan Moore, while the Man of Steel also topped a list from IGN.